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Performances
Highlights,
2010-2015:
- April 22, 2016: Axon by Tania Leon, for violin and live electroacoustic music, Staller Concert Hall, Stony Brook, New York, as part of the spring 2016 Sonic Spring concert series.
- November 29, 2015: Oracle by Douglas Geers, for violin, tarogato (performed by Esther Lamneck), and live electroacoustic music, Frederick Loewe Theater, New York City, as part of a fall 2015 residency with the NYU New Music Ensemble.
- November 22, 2015: Making Place by Katharine Norman, for violin, live electroacoustic music, and live video, Staller Center for the Arts, Stony Brook, New York, as part of Aural Architectures.
- September 26, 2015: Inanna's Descent by Douglas Geers, for violin and live electroacoustic music
at Lyric Theater, Muchison Performing Arts Center, Denton, Texas, as part of the 2015 International Computer Music Conference.
- June 24, 2015: Making Place by Katharine Norman, for violin, live electroacoustic music, and live video, premiere performance of version for solo violin at Playhouse Theater, Abrons Arts Center, New York City, as part of the 2015 New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival (NYCEMF).
- February 13, 2015: Inanna's Descent by Douglas Geers, for violin and live electroacoustic music
at Spectrum,
New York City, as part of the 2015 Composers Now Festival.
- December 5, 2014: Cumulonimbus by Douglas Geers, for violin and live electroacoustic music
at Prentis Hall, New York City,
as part of the fall 2014 Columbia University Computer Music Center concert.
- November 5, 2014: Cumulonimbus by Douglas Geers, for violin and live electroacoustic music at Studio 312, New York City,
as part of the 2014 International Electroacoustic Music Festival.
- October 23, 2014: Cumulonimbus by Douglas Geers, for violin and live electroacoustic music at Gallery MC, New York City,
as part of the fall 2014 Circuit Bridges concert series.
- October 20, 2014: Cumulonimbus by Douglas Geers, for violin and live electroacoustic music
premiered at Frederick Loewe Theater, New York City,
as part of the fall 2014 NYU Interactive Arts concert.
- July 31, 2014: Spin Cycles by Maja Cerar, for violin and electroacoustic music, at Given Concert Hall, Waterville, Maine, as part of the 2014 Atlantic Music Festival.
- July 29, 2014: Catharsis by Maja Cerar and Liubo Borissov, for violin, and live video at Given Concert Hall, Waterville, Maine, as part of the 2014 Atlantic Music Festival.
- July 29, 2014: Violance by Jean-Baptiste Barrierre, for violin, electroacoustic music, and live video at Given Concert Hall, Waterville, Maine, as part of the 2014 Atlantic Music Festival.
- May 8, 2014: Parti... by Yoshiaki Onishi, for solo violin Spectrum, New York City, as part of the debut concert of ensemble ni.
- April 26, 2014: Improvisations with Robot by Maja Cerar, for solo violin and drumming robot, IAC Building, New York City, as part of the 2014 Tribeca Film Institute Interactive Day.
- February 16, 2014: Improvisations with Robot by Maja Cerar, for solo violin and drumming robot, Made in New York Media Center, New York City, as part of the 2014 Tribeca Film Institute "Tribeca Hacks Festival".
- June, 2013: Vita Nova by Brice Pauset, for violin and orchestra
at Baruch Performing Arts Center,
New York City. Ensemble Moto Perpetuo. Jean-Philippe Wurtz, conductor.
- May 18, 2012: Improvisation on Themes from Inanna for violin and electroacoustic music at Prentis Hall, New York City, as part of the ImproTech Paris/New York Festival.
- March 7-12, 2012: Birthday Triage, a devised theater piece written by Naima Kristel and directed by Simon Hanukai at Horace Mann Theater, New York City, as part of the Columbia Stages series. Performed role of Apollo.
- January 22, 2011: Inanna's Descent by Douglas Geers, for violin and live electroacoustic music
at Gusman Auditorium,
Miami, Florida, as part of the 2011 Society for Electroacoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS) conference.
- April, 2011: Birthday Triage, a devised theater piece written by Naima Kristel and directed by Simon Hanukai at Horace Mann Theater, New York City, as part of the Columbia Stages thesis production series. Performed role of Apollo.
- October 27, 2010: Obsessive Currents by Douglas Geers, for violin and electroacoustic music at Whitman Concert Hall, New York City, as part of the International Electroacoustic Music Festival.
- October 20, 2010: Obsessive Currents by Douglas Geers, for violin and electroacoustic music at Woody Tanger Auditorium, New York City, as part of the International Open Access Week.
- June
4, 2010: Sweep by Douglas Geers, for violin, percussion, and laptop orchestra
at Staller Auditorium,
SUNY Stony Brook, as part of the 2010 International Computer Music Conference. Eduardo Leandro, percussion; Douglas Geers, conductor.
- March 27, 2010: Inanna's Descent by Douglas Geers, for violin and live electroacoustic music
at Segal Theater,
New York City, as part of the 2010 New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival (NYCEMF)
Highlights,
2006-2009:
- September
5, 13, 17 and 18, 2009: Cerar premiered and performed Inanna, a 90-minute
"concert play" for actress, violinist, and electroacoustic music, at
the Rigiblick Theater
in Zürich, Switzerland. In this piece, co-created by
writer Mirjam Neidhart and composer Douglas Geers, Cerar played violin,
including sections of improvisation, while acting a major role of the
drama.
- April
4, 2009: Sweep
at Elebash Hall,
CUNY Graduate Center, New York City, as part of the 2009 New York City
Electroacoustic Music Festival.
- February
20, 2009: Sweep,
for violin, percussion, and laptop orchestra, at the Cedar Cultural Center,
Minneapolis as part of the 2009 Spark Festival of Electronic Music and
Arts. Fernando Meza, percussion, Douglas Geers, conductor
and composer.
- September
10-28, 2008: Calling,
a 90-minute opera by Douglas Geers (composer) and Wickham Boyle
(librettist), which included several soloistic violin sections and
choreography. 15 performances at the La Mama Experimental Theater,
New York City.
- Lesser of Two Evils
(excerpt from Calling),
Premiered June 26, 2008 at the Boyle/Minor Loft, New York
City.
- Sweep, for violin,
percussion,
and laptop orchestra, by Douglas Geers, performed May 17, 2008 at Taplin Auditorium,
Princeton University with the Princeton University Laptop Orchestra
(PLOrk)
and percussionist
Cameron Britt.
- Sweep, for violin,
percussion, and laptop orchestra, premiered April 8, 2008 at the Sonic Divergence Festival,
Chicago, with PLOrk and Cameron Britt, percussion.
- Community Rising,
for violin and three Wii-remote controlled laptops, by Douglas Geers,
premiered March 10, 2008 as part of the Composers Collaborative Serial
Underground series, Cornelia
St. Café, New York City.
- How Long/Rescue
(excerpt of Calling)
performed February 27, 2008, Spark Festival of Electronic Music and
Art, Ted Mann Concert
Hall, Minneapolis.
- Rescue (excerpt
from Calling),
premiered November 10, 2007 as part of the Serial
Underground performance series, Cornelia
Street Café, New York City.
- August
4 and
5th, 2007: Invited performance of Autopoiesis
and Mimesis
(both
by Borissov/Cerar) at the SIGGRAPH
international conference/festival,
Cal-IT2 Auditorium, San Diego.
- June
2007: Chamber music recital of
Vivaldi, Monti,
etc., on the island of Dugi Otok, Croatia, at the opening concert of
the summer 2007 cultural season.
- March
2007: Cerar
performed music and movement in Liubo Borissov and Edisa Weeks' An
Arrow and a Fall, at Swing Space and the Joyce SoHo Theater,
New York
City.
- Cerar
was
spotlighted at the 2007 Spark
Festival of
Electronic Music
and Arts in late February, where she played Morton Subotnick's Tremble,
Ted Mann Concert Hall; Jason Freeman's, Graph Theory,
Southern Theater;
and Doug Geers' Shadow,
Southern Theatre (Minneapolis).
- In
February 2007
Cerar performed Jason Freeman's Graph
Theory, at the Cornelia Street Café, New York
City as part
of the Serial Underground
series.
- On
October 26,
2006 Maja Cerar premiered a multimedia violin
concerto written for her by Douglas Geers at the final night of the
international Unicum
Festival for new music and as part of the
subscription series of the Radio-Television
Orchestra of Slovenia (Evan
Christ, conductor), at the Cankarjev Dom Performing Arts Center in
Ljubljana, Slovenia. This performance was broadcast live on national
television and radio, and included choreography by Maja Cerar.
- In
August 2006
Cerar performed a chamber music recital
at
the Loca Musica
summer school in Skofja Loka, Slovenia.
- In
May 2006 Cerar
recorded Graph Theory,
a new work written for her
by
Jason Freeman. This Internet-based work was launched in October of 2006.
- Maja
Cerar was a
"Featured Soloist" at the 2006
Spark Festival (February) and performed two programs of
electroacoustic
music by featured composer Alvin Lucier and
composers Panayiotis Kokoras (Greece),
Gilles Gobert (Belgium), Roger Dannenberg (U.S.), Douglas Geers (U.S.),
and Cerar/Borissov (Switzerland/Bulgaria) in the Ted Mann Concert Hall
and Ultan Recital
Hall, Minneapolis.
Appearances in
2001-05 --
Highlights:
International
- John
Zorn's violin concerto "Contes
de Fées" on the opening evening of the ISCM
(International Society for Contemporary Music) World Music Days 2003
and the opening of the season of the Slovene Philharmonic Orchestra in
Ljubljana
- Solo
work "Enkidu"
by Douglas Geers with the Experimentalstudio
der
Heinrich-Strobel-Stiftung des Südwestrundfunks Freiburg
at the
ISCM
World Music Days 2003
- Karl
Amadeus Hartmann violin
concerto "Concerto
Funebre", Portogruaro, Italy; Radio-Television Orchestra
of Slovenia
(Lior Shambadal, conductor)
- Multimedia
work Autopoiesis (Borissov/Cerar)
and improvisatory performance at ICMC
2005 festival, Barcelona
- Gilgamesh,
an evening-long
multimedia violin concerto: Zurich,
Theater an der
Sihl, June 20-22,
2002 (created by Douglas Geers, composer; Anne Lorenz, visual design;
Mirjam Neidhart, director)
- Blaz
Arnic violin
concerto, Radio-Television Orchestra of Slovenia
(Arnic, conductor)
- Classical
recital with pianist
John Novacek in the 300 year anniversary season of the Slovene
Philharmonic, Philharmonia
Hall, Ljubljana
- Solo
program with works by Bach,
Ysaÿe, and Geers at the Festival
of Creativity and Free Culture, Cankarjev Dom,
Ljubljana, 2005.
- Performances
on Swiss and
Slovene national television networks, 2000-2007.
- Solo
work "Enkidu"by
Douglas
Geers at
the final concert of the 2003
ICMC festival, Singapore
- Theater
production of Vivaldi's Four Seasons in Mexico City and Huatulco
(directed by
Hansjörg Betschart), as well as concerts as soloist (Tartini,
"Devil's Trill"; Romanelli, "Double Concerto"; etc.) at the
"Viva
Vivaldi" Festival of Baroque music in Mexico City and
subsequent broadcast performances on Mexican national
television, 2002 and 2003.
New
York City:
- Miller Theatre All-American
contemporary program (works by Charles Ives, John Zorn, George
Antheil, Jimi Hendrix, etc.), with pianist John Novacek, February 2001.
- Merce Cunningham Studio
ThreeTwo Festival: Performances in a collaborative dance piece (music
by Keith Moore / Maja Cerar, choreography by Malene Schjonning)
- Kentler
International Drawing
Space symposium "Herbert Brün: Computer Graphics and
Compositions for Interpreters" collaborative work with Liubo Borisson
featuring live interactive audio and video
- Columbia
University
"RE: New Frontiers of Creativity" Symposium as part of the 250 Year Celebration of
Columbia
University (a collaborative work with Liubo Borissov with
choreography, live video and audio processing, created under the
auspices of multimedia artist Paul Kaiser)
- Lower
Manhattan
Project/Builders' Association/Dancing in the Streets: Thomas Edison
collaborative project with Liubo Borissov with live interactive video
processing, violin and theremin
- 25th
Anniversary Season of the American
Festival of Microtonal Music, work
with live electronics by Douglas Geers, Faust Harrison Salon
- ASCAP's "Through The
Walls" series, with works by Douglas Geers
- International Festival of
Electroacoustic Music, Brooklyn College, New York
- "Living
with the Genie"
media/technology festival/symposium, Columbia University, New York
- Merkin Hall (Zoom:
Composers Close-Up - Emerging Composers), work by Luke DuBois with
interactive video
- Additional
performances at
Merkin Hall, Weill Hall
(Carnegie Hall), Chelsea Museum, Engine 27, The Slipper Room, Tenri,
the Speyer Recital Hall, Columbia University, NYU, Here, Shapiro
Theatre, Riverside Church, etc.
Elsewhere in the U.S.
- Ought One Festival,
Montpelier,
Vermont
- Biennial Symposium on Arts and
Technology, New London, Connecticut
- SEAMUS Festival for
Electroacoustic Music in both Texas (2000) and Arizona (2003)
- LITSK Biennial
Symposium of
Electronic Music, Princeton
University
- The Roosevelt Arts
Project, New
Jersey
- The Santa Fe
International
Festival of Electronic Music
- NWEAMO Festival in
San Diego
- (etc.)
To engage Maja Cerar for
performances or for further information, please contact
maja[at]music[dot]columbia[dot]edu
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